The Hope pioneer., 1887-07-29

the special agent of the company was
arranging with our citizens for right OF
way through the county, which has been
guaranteed them free of charge This
will give Woonsocket direct commun-
ication over three lines to St. Paul anc
Duluth, and three lines to Chicago.
Town property has doubled here in
value in the past week.
COMING FAIRS
The Rapid City fair association is
making preparations to hold an annual
exhibit this year which will eclipse all
the previous efforts of the association
in this direction.
Several of the principal cities of the
Black Hills are discussing the propriety
of sending an exhibit of the products Of
the Hills, to the Nebraska state fair at
Lincoln, Nebraska, and to the Omaha
exposition this year.
Secretary Prouty of the North Da-
kota board of agriculture. says of the
fair to be held ut Grand Forks this fall:
Notwithstanding The fact that our fair
grounds we're wrecked by the cyclone,
we are going ahead with the work of
repairing them and putting them in
shape for the fair, which we will make
the best ever held west of St. Paul
| We have thu money to do it, and for
| portion of that we are indebted to St.
Pauland Minneapolis. Our prizes and
purses are liberal. We will have some
good horses, also some good equestrian
| w of E., IL, Id b.
compete for. l have been arranging
for transportation of exhibits and stock
and have been very successful.
MINNEHAHA COUNTY.
Argus: S. E. Young as chairman of
the local option canvassing committee
|'appeared before the county commits
sioners, and presented the petition ask
ing for vote on the question. There
were seventy-three different petitions,
containing in all 1885 names, 1,136 be-
| ing the necessary number to secure the
calling of the election. The petition
contains the signatures of 266 men
from Sioux Falls; out of total voting
population of 1905 at the elections last
fall. The signatures are divided by
wards as follows. First, 4S; second, 80:
third 1870; fourth, So. 1t contains many
names who will not support the meas
ure, and many who will support it are
not there. MI. Young says that no
particular effort was made to get more
than enough to secure the calling Of
the election.
The commissioners called the elec.
ton for November-the regular time of
the fall elections.
CAVALIER COUNTY PROSPECTS.
The railroad grade from Park River
to Langdon, the county feat of Cavalier
county, is about finished. The bridge
work has been commenced and the
completion of the road is expected bv
Aug. Is. This extension of the St. Paul,
Minneapolis g. Manitoba will recover
one of the most thickly settled and fin
est wneat belts in Dakota. Cavalier
county has an area of about 1000
square miles, and Langdon is located
in the center of the county. It will re-
main the terminus of the road for some
time. There will be three good bust
ness points between Park River and
Land nburgh, Million and
IOsnabroc h town being beautiful
I 3ly located and in the heartSof a rich and
beautiful country. This extension will
also open UP about 5000 acres Of gov
ernmeEt land, which have heretofore
been to far from market, and the settler
who now desires a good home and farm
should avail himself Of this opportunity
as soon as possible.
AFTER THE REDS
The jamestown section of the coun-
try is being secured by mounted In
dian Police from the Fort Totten In
dian reservation, in search of sew
eral squaws and pappooses who sold
their effects and decamped withoutleave.
The Indians speak only broken and
imperfect English, and it is only with
difficulty that the object of their visit
was ascertained. These Indian police
are regularly appointed and employed
by the government to do police duty on
the reservation. They wear the mill
tary blue and brass buttons, and are ef-
ficient aids in keeping discontented and
restless Indians within the reservation
limits. The band of four or five bucks
that got into trouble at Joe Bischoff's
slaughter house few weeks since are,
also deserters whom the police are now
searching for.
GOV. CHURCH.
Hon. George H. Corey, who is now
on his way to London as Dakotas re-.
preventative at the Exposition, when
passing through Washington said;
although l am a Republican, I can
not bring myself to join in the partisan
attacks upon Gov. Church. I leave
that to disappointed office-seeking
Democrats. Gov. Church is a manly
man, a good and honest official, and I
like him. There are more Republicans
in Dakota to-day who are inclined to
speak we'll of the governor than there
are Democrats. The trouble is easily
discoverable. Gov. Church has been
unable to give offices to all Democrats
nor to all of their friends. Republicans
have no right to expect offices,
90 not demand them, nor hope for
them; and they more placid in Judging
the man. The South Dakota Democrats
are never going to like Church. They
have made up their minds to that and
nothing will change them. He can
probably stand it, though, if they can.''
| DIR. MOODY.
Yankton Press-In the appointment
OF DR.. Moody, of Huron, to the position
OF president OF the territorial board of
health, the Dakota medical association
has its first recognition from any gov